self-driving cars

The promise of driving has been looming over the transportation industry for the better part of this decade, but full-scale commercial adoption of the technology is still a topic of contention. This is because there are simply too many factors that play a role in deciding the roadmap to adoption,...

Adding to the flurry of recent activity around Cruise, General Motor Company's (NYSE: GM) self-driving unit, the automaker on Wednesday disclosed a long-term compensation plan that could net Dan Ammann, the CEO of that unit, $25 million over the next decade if the company goes public or sees a...

Jaws dropped at the autonomous driving advances unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show, with Daimler in particular raising eyebrows for a $570 million investment that it says will get it close to full automation in a decade.
But things are not as rosy as it sounds, as it is starting to dawn on...

A Waymo autonomous vehicle drives a city street. Until autonomous vehicles can reduce the number of incidents they are involved in below what human drivers are involved in, the public is unlikely to support them.
How close are human drivers to interacting with autonomous vehicles on the roads? That...

Observers of the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry could be forgiven for thinking that the technology has hit something of a wall. Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) disabled its Autopilot feature last month; Waymo's AVs get into near-weekly collisions in its Phoenix testing area; Uber Freight halted its...

Last quarter’s fatalities involving autonomous vehicle technology were seen to justify some of the concerns voiced by Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) bears. Critics were confident the crashes would dent consumer enthusiasm toward self-driving cars and, in one case involving the Model X, weigh...

Semiconductor manufacturers are clawing to become the core drivers of the autonomous vehicle industry, and three have emerged at the vanguard.
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the undisputed leader with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) still...

The shift toward self-driving cars is expected to make numerous services unecessary and put a substantial number of people out of work. But Autoliv Inc. (NYSE: ALV)’s an exception, according to one market analyst.
The Rating
Baird Equity Research's David Leiker upgraded Autoliv to...